Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

According to the SACR 2025 AI SOC Market Landscape report, 40% of security alerts go uninvestigated. The average alert investigation takes 70 minutes. Meanwhile, attackers achieve breakout in under 48 hours. That math doesn’t work in anyone’s favor — except the adversary’s.

Tool proliferation is compounding. Alerts are multiplying faster than teams can triage them. Visibility gaps are hiding real threats. And security teams are stuck babysitting archaic security infrastructure, rather than detecting and stopping threats. Organizations across gaming, fintech, and retail are feeling the weight of traditional, on-premises SIEMs.

If you’ve been in security operations for more than a few years, you’ve lived through the automation hype cycle at least twice. First, it was SIEM that was going to solve everything. Then SOAR was supposed to fix what SIEM couldn’t. Now, AI SOC platforms are delivering what SOAR always promised but never actually could.

In its January 2026 report, Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators in Domain-Specific Language Models for SecOps, Gartner examines how domain-specific language models (DSLMs) are reshaping security operations. The report explains that DSLMs are designed to address the limitations of general-purpose language models by focusing on a particular task or use case – in this case, cybersecurity.

The time between compromise and data exfiltration now occurs before most SOCs finish their first triage. Phishing breaches succeed in under 60 minutes. The average SOC investigation takes 70. This is why financial institutions are operating at a structural disadvantage.

Picture this: it’s 2am, your pager goes off, and you’re staring at a production database that’s on fire. You know exactly what’s wrong. You know exactly how to fix it. But you can’t touch anything because you’re waiting on someone to approve your access request. Meanwhile, your customers are down, your SLAs are bleeding out, and you’re refreshing Slack, and every minute you spend waiting is another minute of damage you could’ve prevented.

In many organizations, there is a dangerous unspoken rule: The SOC handles endpoints and networks; Engineering handles APIs. This silo creates a massive blind spot. We recently spoke with the Senior Manager of Security Engineering at a major insurance provider, who described this exact pain point.